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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What kind of virtues does Part Two examine?

2. What does Hume say are the two types of reason?

3. What determines whether action is good or bad?

4. Why do we love people we know more than strangers?

5. What does Hume say is the opposite of respect?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Hume think passions rather than reason determine the will?

2. Why does Hume want to answer the question, "Which impression or ideas help us to divide virtue from vice?"

3. What does Part Three of Book Three say about natural virtues?

4. How would Hume's system deal with murder?

5. How has society developed a sense of justice?

6. Why does Hume say justice must be moral?

7. Summarize Part Three of Book Two.

8. When do moral pleasures and pains occur?

9. What is Hume's argument against those who defend free will?

10. Why does Hume think reason is the slave of the passions?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Define the following philosophical terms and describe why they are so important in understanding Hume's Treatise.

1. Empiricism.

2. Skepticism.

3. Impressions.

4. Cause and effect.

Essay Topic 2

What are Hume's thoughts on space and time and do they relate to his overall argument? What are the arguments against Hume's ideas on space and time?

Essay Topic 3

In what way is reason the slave of the passions? Why doesn't Hume think reason can direct the will? What according to Hume's idea would happen if the will was determined by reason?

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